3500 Gilpin St, Denver 80205
The Motor Coach Division Building of the Denver Tramway Company figured into the Denver metropolitan region's transition from streetcars to gas and diesel powered, rubber-tired motor coaches, or buses, in the period from 1937 to 1950. The 1893 building began as a storage facility for electric streetcars, but a 1937 addition doubled the size of the facility and began its function as a bus garage and maintenance facility. An additional expansion occurred in 1947 to accommodate more buses necessitated by the expansion of public transportation to meet Denver's post-World War II growth.
